21 November 2018
First captive carry of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne
...- 500 kilograms into orbit, but unlike traditional launch vehicles that take off from a stationary and upright ...rocket itself. From my perspective in the cockpit, the vehicles handled incredibly well, and perfectly matched what we’ve trained for...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
... to the chief designer of the Long March family of rockets, Long Lehao, China is currently developing a heavy duty launch vehicle that could be capable of sending Chinese astronauts to the moon by 2030. The statement, announced on state media CCTV...
22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
... the Apollo 11 mission took just 4 days to reach the Moon, India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk-III) used in the launch, cannot thrust Chandrayaan-2 straight to our nearest celestial neighbour. Instead the spacecraft will...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... venture in human exploration: development of the Space Launch System super heavy-lift rocket after an independent commission...for the design, development, test and production of the launch vehicle core stage and upper stages, as well as development ...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... Force History Office, Washington DC 1998 5 Dissel, Adam, Kothari, and Lewis, M., Investigation of Two-Stage-to-Orbit Airbreathing launch Vehicle Configurations, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2006. pp. 568-574
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
..., called the Hypersonic Space and Global Transportation System (HSGTS), include: a 100 per cent reusable TSTO launch vehicle; takes off and lands horizontally; air-breathing propulsion on both stages; - Mach 4 turbine engines on the first...
